Pennsylvania's proposed data centers are bringing strangers together in protest

NPR | By Kat Bolus

Published July 5, 2026 at 8:26 AM EDT

Proposals to build six data centers in the small community of Archbald, Pennsylvania, have brought strangers together to fight the plans there — and elsewhere in the state.

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